THE MAN 37 



In moral training, or the application of knowledge 

 to conduct, Huxley would accord no place to theol- 

 ogy. If the various denominations, whether Church 

 or Dissenting, choose to start and maintain schools in 

 which their several tenets are to be taught, that is 

 their affair. They pay the piper, and they may call 

 the tune. But schools established and maintained by 

 the community depart from their proper functions 

 when they train " either hands for factories or con- 

 gregations for churches." 1 They are to hold on 

 brief for any sect. The ethics which they teach must 

 have relation to life, and therefore must be neither 

 technical nor speculative. Theology is both, and 

 cannot be otherwise. Moreover, where order is pres- 

 ent, it imports confusion ; it, and it alone, is the 

 apple of discord, and its dogmas, on many of which 

 no two sects are agreed, bring " not peace, but a 

 sword." The teaching of the ascertained facts of 

 history, astronomy, geology, and other branches of 

 science ; the inculcation of the duties of cleanliness 

 and temperance ; of self-respect and self-restraint ; of 

 consideration for others ; of kindness to animals ; and 

 of honesty and truthfulness in all the relations of life 

 — all which, enforced by example and illustration, can 

 be brightly conveyed, — these run smoothly enough 

 and arouse no bitterness. It is over the disputable 



